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The e-auction's over, and as became clear yesterday, Viacom18 is the big winner of Indian Premier League cricket rights. The company bagged digital rights in India for 410 games over the next five years for $2.6B and today followed up with the international rights for three of the other big cricketing nations…

Viacom18 has bowled out the opposition and caught the sought-after streaming rights to the Indian Premier League cricket tournament. The company paid a cool 205B rupees ($2.6B) for the digital rights, which cover the next five years, according to The Times of India. In a streaming market as competitive as India's, the…

Today is the day when bids are to be submitted for rights to the Indian Premier League, whose cricket games are a massive draw across South Asia and other parts of the world and have helped propel the global rollout of Disney+. After taking on cricket as part of its $71.3 billion acquisition of most of 21st Century…

Disney has shifted streaming programming from Hotstar U.S. to ESPN+ and Hulu, notably Indian Premier League cricket matches, Bollywood film and TV titles and Hotstar specials. As part of the programming realignment, existing streaming service Hotstar U.S. will disappear, likely by late-2022, the company said. The…

Sundance London Dates, Opener Sundance Film Festival: London will return to Picturehouse Central, London, for its sixth year from 29 July to 1 August 2021, as an in-person event. The program of at least 12 features will open with the UK premiere of Edgar Wright's debut documentary The Sparks Brothers, about the U.S…